The Syria rebels shot down a military helicopter in the eastern part of the country, resulting in eight government troops on board a day after opposition forces in the north into a large U.S. Air Force base, activists said Monday.
In the past few months, the rebels fighting to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad often targeted military aircraft and air bases, attempt to deprive his regime a key weapon used against the opposition stronghold and reverse rebel gains in the 2-year-old conflict.
UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights Monday posted a video, several armed men standing in front of the wreckage. One of the soldiers of the lens, which is a helicopter, shot down by the rebels on Sunday night Deir el-Zour eastern provinces, as well as the Syrian border with Iraq.
As the man spoke, the camera is transferred to the body filled with a pickup truck. And then heard to say, Assad's forces take the helicopter were killed in shoot down fighter. He said the Islamic war the Shi Yibu Bakr Sadiqq, the brigade shot down the helicopter, because it is the Deir el-Zour take-off near an air base in the provincial capital.
Observatory, relying on a network of activists on the ground, said that eight soldiers were killed.
On Sunday, the rebels occupied part of a few months who defend the spread of facilities with Turkey near the border with government forces fighting Air Force Base in northern Syria, the Observatory said.
Assad's fighters were pounding rebel positions Mannagh Air Force Base Monday, the raging conflict between the rebels and government forces, the Observatory said, both sides have an unknown number of casualties.
The day before, the rebel movement in-depth Air Force Base fire fighters from the government to capture the tank base unit and killed the base commander, Brig. General Ali Salim Mahmoud, according to another activist group, Aleppo media center.
Fighting came hours after Israeli warplanes attacked areas around the Syrian capital, set off a series of explosions targeted shipment for their high degree of accuracy, the Iranian-made guided missiles to constrain believe that Lebanon's Hezbollah militant group, officials and The family said.
Attacks, second and third in three days, this year marks Israel in dramatic escalation of the civil war in Syria. Syrian state media reported on Sunday, the Israeli missile attack near Damascus, causing casualties military and scientific research centers.
The largely peaceful protests against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian conflict began in March 2011, but eventually evolved into a civil war, has killed more than 70,000 people, according to the United Nations.
In the battle, more than one million Syrians flee their homes and seek refuge in neighboring countries such as Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey. Others millions of dollars have been displaced inside Syria.
 
 



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